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Post by droob »

k3n wrote: post #45
leot wrote: post #36

Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.

Conversely, this has always been my complaint against the general hoopla and bandwagonning around Twitter -- they didn't do anything technically innovative. When they first started generating buzz, I instantly thought, "Oh, did they create a new messaging protocol that is universally accessible, redundant and easy to use? That's killer!" But, that was not the case. Yes, they had a good idea and executed very well, bu…

Once the user base is big enough, that's the main draw.

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Post by Mojah »

If you're debugging webservices that suddenly slow down (timeouts of 10s), this may be your cause if they depend on s.twitter.com, search.twitter.com or api.twitter.com.

As a workaround for those systems, add s.twitter.com, search.twitter.com and api.twitter.com in your /etc/hosts file that map back to 127.0.0.1.

This obviously breaks Twitter integration, but it also makes sure page loads don't explode when waiting for remote resources.

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Post by ceejayoz »

aeurielesn wrote: post #10

Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.

The real irony for me is they host their status page via Tumblr, which has at times had a pretty dismal uptime number.

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Post by jdminhbg »

bithive123 wrote: post #66
kristofferR wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99,9% of people doesn't care at all about how technically innovative something is, they only care about how useful it is. And Twitter is incredibly useful.

"Incredibly useful" would imply that if you told me about Twitter, I wouldn't believe you. As much as I wish it were otherwise, it's not that hard to believe that someone invented IRC over HTTP and gave it a silly name.

Many people, myself included, were skeptical of the value of Twitter until they used it. In that sense, we literally did not believe how useful Twitter was. Also, Twitter is almost nothing like IRC in any respect other than being an electronic communication medium.

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Post by untog »

k3n wrote: post #45
leot wrote: post #36

Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.

Conversely, this has always been my complaint against the general hoopla and bandwagonning around Twitter -- they didn't do anything technically innovative. When they first started generating buzz, I instantly thought, "Oh, did they create a new messaging protocol that is universally accessible, redundant and easy to use? That's killer!" But, that was not the case. Yes, they had a good idea and executed very well, bu…

Oh, did they create a new messaging protocol that is universally accessible, redundant and easy to use?

Something the vast majority of people couldn't care less about. Twitter has, in effect, created a new messaging protocol, in the broadest sense of it. It's accessible on your computer, your phone, even your TV if you try hard enough. It's integrated with hundreds of apps and sites. Technically speaking it isn't doing anything particularly amazing (although the sheer scale they deal with is), but that's not really the point.

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